Tank Commanders

The tank commander (assuming he is, as 
someone pointed out) just the vehicle 
commander, has several principal tasks:

1) locating and prioritizing threats to the tank
- usually this would include other armour as a 
primary threat, infantry and other AFVs as a 
secondary threat
2) directing the combat action of the tank 
(providing direction to the driver and gunner 
and spotting for the gunner)
3) taking direction from the external 
commander of the tank element
4) taking direction from other external authority
5) providing a higher level of SA than a 
commander-less tank could normally have 
(maybe this aspect goes away once we get 
advanced synthetic environments, maybe not)

T. 
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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site

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